Dan GillmorInstead of begging a sociopath CEO to please, please, please let them keep using his increasingly terrible website for research and other activities, these orgs and people should be organizing to move what they do to the open web. https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/
Kate Starbird@dangillmor How about we do both? Our team is both diversifying our research program (developing new data streams from other platforms and the methods to analyze them) and advocating for Twitter to remain open for researchers.
@katestarbird Both for now, sure, but my goal is to get everyone off of that platform for good...
Andrew@dangillmor @katestarbird Yeah, but you have to do it in order, right? Sure, they could move their research projects here, but (a) not at a week's notice and (b) the fediverse userbase is not as large or representative as Twitter's, so the research would suffer. Get the common users away and the research projects will move on their own, but nobody's sticking around on Twitter to be part of somebody's dataset.